-known effects on gender gaps in employment and earnings. We use an event study approach with retrospective data for 29 countries … into self-employment. Overall, our results suggest relevant changes in the allocation of talent caused by gender …

paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and … gender in any analysis. …

-educational media content as a factor in the widening educational gender gap. Based on time-use data, we show that a possible …

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … educational activities and less time on physical and media related activities. These gender gaps in time allocation appear at very … young ages and widen overtime. We provide novel evidence that gender differentials in time investment are quantitatively …

In this article, we survey the theoretical literature investigating the role of gender inequality in economic … development. The vast majority of theories reviewed suggest that gender inequality is a barrier to development, particularly over …

We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender … unexplained gender gap, mainly in the upper parts of the wage distribution. Finally, results suggest that employers place greater … existence of sex-specific skills of their workers, which could then widen the within-firm gender wage gap. …

Focused on human capital, economists typically explain about half of the gender earnings gap. For a national sample of … preferences regarding family, career, and jobs. Those two sources of gender heterogeneity account for a quarter of the "explained …

skill use of men compared with women. We argue that having a partner affects skill use through time allocation as the gender …